Kausalya's Lament And Rama's Reply Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD AA EE FF GG HI II BB JJ KL MM NN| Slow and sad with Saint Vasishtha with each widowed royal dame | A |
| Unto Rama's hermit cottage ancient Queen Kausalya came | A |
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| And she saw him clad in wild bark like a hermit stern and high | B |
| And an anguish smote her bosom and a tear bedewed her eye | B |
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| Rama bowed unto his mother and each elder's blessings sought | C |
| Held their feet in salutation with a holy reverence fraught | C |
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| And the queens with loving fingers with a mother's tender care | D |
| Swept the dust of wood and jungle from his head and bosom fair | D |
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| Lakshman too in loving homage bent before each royal dame | A |
| And they blessed the faithful hero spotless in his righteous fame | A |
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| Lastly came the soft eyed Sita with obeisance soft and sweet | E |
| And with hands in meekness folded bent her tresses to their feet | E |
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| Pain and anguish smote their bosoms round their Sita as they prest | F |
| As a mother clasps a daughter clasped her in their loving breast | F |
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| Torn from royal hall and mansions ranger of the darksome wood | G |
| Reft of home and kith and kindred by her forest but she stood | G |
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| 'Hast thou daughter of Videha ' weeping thus Kausalya said | H |
| 'Dwelt in woods and leafy cottage and in pathless jungle strayed | I |
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| Hast thou Rama's royal consort lived a homeless anchorite | I |
| Pale with rigid fast and penance worn with toil of righteous rite | I |
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| But thy sweet face gentle Sita is like faded lotus dry | B |
| And like lily parched by sunlight lustreless thy beauteous eye | B |
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| Like the gold untimely tarnished is thy sorrow shaded brow | J |
| Like the moon by shadows darkened is thy form of beauty now | J |
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| And an anguish scathes my bosom like the withering forest fire | K |
| Thus to see thee duteous daughter in misfortunes deep and dire | L |
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| Dark is wide Kosala's empire dark is Raghu's royal house | M |
| When in woods my Rama wanders and my Rama's royal spouse | M |
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| Sweetly gentle Sita answered answered Rama fair and tall | N |
| That a righteous father's mandate duteous son may not recall | N |
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